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Smith won both races over the mile course in the basin yesterday and gained possession of the Slocum Trophy. The third crews do not row until this afternoon but Smith could finish last and still come out on top in the final reckoning. The first race was started from the Cottage Farm Bridge at 4 o'clock, the crews rowing across the Charles River Basin to the Harvard Bridge. Smith and Gore rowed side by side during most of the race, but a hundred yards from the finish Smith spurted and managed to shoot over the line a bare quarter...
...course. In one place the men had to cross a 10-foot ditch full of water because one of the fields was temporarily closed. Some forded the ditch while others took to broad-jumping. K. E. Fuller 16 was well in the lead all the way. The order of finish was as follows: K. E. Fuller '16, R. T. Twitchell '16, W. P. Whitehouse, 2d '17, A. R. Bancroft '17 and G. A. King '18, R. W. Babcock '17, G. A. King '18, R. W. Babcock '17, H. L. M. Cole '16, J. C. Merriam '16, and H. S. Boyd...
...finish of the preliminary work, Captain Mahan, King, Cowen, and Bigelow took seats in the Stadium and watched the scrimmage, while a composite eleven of Teams A and B lined up against Team B of the seconds. After the past several days' work of the second team, the playing of its substitutes was a revelation, for they started out with a savage attack and in less than five minutes had scored a safety against their opponents, Harris at the University centre, making a poor pass that proved fatal. Soon after, however, Willcox intercepted a long pass of Blair...
Ezra Ripley Thayer '88, Dean of the Law School, died on September 14. Dean Thayer had been kept from his work for two months last spring through poor health, and although he returned to finish the academic year, was ill most of the summer...
...rowed a faster stroke almost throughout the race, but fell behind constantly as the Blue showed no signs of weakening or overstraining. The University also lost the Freshman and second University races, although in the latter contest there was less than a length between the two boats at the finish. On the first day of the regatta Harvard scored a clean sweep, winning handily in the Freshman four and graduates' eight events...